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Posted in Education, Psychology, Therapy on Apr 9th, 2010
How to Think and Intervene Like an REBT Therapist
Windy Dryden
Routledge 2009
ISBN 978-0-415-48795-5 (pbk) £18.99
I liked this book a lot, partly because it is straightforward and ‘does what is says on the tin’. As you would expect from arguably the UK’s most authoritative REBT practitioner and teacher, the book, like an ideal REBT session, is [...]
Posted in Therapy on Aug 7th, 2009
At the moment, anyone can claim to be a counsellor or psychotherapist in the UK. The titles are not a protected ones, like ‘doctor’. There are, of course, professional bodies that reputable practitioners will belong to. The major professional bodies (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, for example) are careful to distinguish [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Mortality, Psychology, Religion, Therapy on Jun 15th, 2009
I caught part of BBC’s Songs of Praise last night. Well, it was on the TV, and I have spent enough years in my former life as an active Christian to have a strong cultural resonance with some of the music, and there was nothing else in particular to do, so I watched.
In the [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on May 7th, 2009
Are you a seagull?
Albert Ellis, a cognitive therapist, cited by the American Psychological Association in 2003 as the second most influential psychologist in the twentieth century, used to argue that most people had strong tendencies to be like seagulls. As a psychotherapist he was quite unusual in his methods and often did and said seemingly [...]
Posted in Psychology, Therapy on May 26th, 2008
I read this morning of yet another person claiming to be a therapist who had had sex with his clients. Carmine Baffa from Atlanta persuaded as many as eight people to have sex with him while claiming it was part of their treatment. He bought a Ph.D. online and claimed to be a [...]
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